On the search for metadiscourse units
Annelie Ädel, Paul Rayson, Andrew R. Wilson, Tony McEnery · 2001
To what extent do writers anchor their discourse in the current discourse situation and make the presence of the writer and/or reader overt? What types of situations are at hand when writers refer to their text as text, to themselves or to their readers? To what extent are texts monologic or dialogic? These types of questions have recently attracted a lot of attention within research on metadiscourse.